ABSTRACT
A dynamic movement towards more social control for black people in England has come in Bernard Coard's book for the Caribbean Education and Community Workers’ Association, How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System. Coard demonstrates how British white middle-class culture pressurizes the black immigrant child to hate his own blackness, refuse to admit it, and makes him rather see himself as white: ‘the children are therefore made neurotic about their race and culture’. Coard tells his readers that ‘pride and self-confidence’ are what is needed by the black man faced with the pressures of white culture. Black people living in white societies or societies afflicted by a legacy of colonialism are beginning to deal very radically with their cultural absurdity. The awareness and recognition of themselves as prisoners of white culture and language is causing them to act in a stronger and more unified way to free themselves.
